'Hotel Hell' subject to be sold at auction

Cambridge Hotel, featured on reality TV show, to close Sunday

Updated 11:23 pm, Thursday, June 14, 2012

Photo: PHILIP KAMRASS

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Times Union Staff photograph by Philip Kamrass -- The Cambridge Hotel is gradually reopening for business after being sold and renovated. It is open on weekends for now, with its restaurants reopening in the next month. Shown here in Cambridge, NY on Tuesday July 31, 2007. FOR ALAN WECHSLER STORY. less

Times Union Staff photograph by Philip Kamrass -- The Cambridge Hotel is gradually reopening for business after being sold and renovated. It is open on weekends for now, with its restaurants reopening in the ... more

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CAMBRIDGE — The troubled Cambridge Hotel, which was foreclosed on earlier this spring, will close after a farewell party on Sunday, according to a note sent to customers.

The hotel was scheduled to be auctioned off on Friday.

The note says in part:

"It has been a pleasure getting to know the wonderful people in our community, and the relationships that have been bonded and the memories will last forever. Thank you for your business, and your understanding in these difficult times."

The news comes just days after the date of the series premiere was announced for "Hotel Hell," the Gordon Ramsay reality show in which the profane British chef tries to turn around failing inns.

Earlier this year the Cambridge Hotel was visited by Ramsay for an episode of "Hotel Hell." The difference between before and after was stunning, and the hotel enjoyed a surge in attention and business. But the hotel will have been closed for almost two months when the series premieres on Aug. 13.

The show's Facebook page makes no mention of which episodes will air first, and it's unclear whether the closure will affect whether the show about the Cambridge Hotel episode will air.